Operational brief
Cursor
AI IDE with local and cloud agents, plus a coordinator for shared project context.
Choose it when
You want the agent inside the editor, with optional cloud/self-hosted machines.
Skip it when
You refuse a closed IDE, or you only want a terminal agent.
01 / Classification
Autonomy evidence
This is our classification, not a vendor badge. The record says what the product normally does. The gaps stay visible.
02 / Operations
Control reality
Useful agents eventually touch something real. This is the operational picture we have, not a promise hidden in a sales page.
03 / Receipts
Evidence ledger
Here is what this brief is built on. “Documented” means we found a source. “Tested” means this desk actually ran it. Those are different things.
Sources on file
Corrections
Not recorded yet. If we change a material claim, the correction belongs here.
04 / Change log
Related coverage
The brief tells you what the product is. Payloads track the changes that may alter the decision.
- Cursor Projects: Coordinator Agent and Shared Context Across Cloud and Local→
- Cursor Just Made Its Cloud Agents Run Inside Your Network. The Self-Hosted Machines Launch Is The Enterprise Inflection Point.→
- Cursor Cloud Agents Just Became Event-Driven Subscriptions That Monitor PRs, Watch Slack Threads, and Run Scheduled Tasks→
- Cursor Composer 2 Just Hit GA. A Multi-Agent Coding IDE That Runs 12 Parallel Sub-Agents, Auto-Fixes Production Incidents While You Sleep, and Why This Is the First AI Tool That Actually Changes How Engineering Teams Hire.→